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...Only one country, socialist Bolivia, currently elects supreme court judges, according to the Federal Judicial Center....
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...During five years in office, López Obrador has cut the budgets of many state institutions, and recently proposed that board members of the election authority INE and Supreme Court judges should be directly...
...He fled there after prosecutors published chat messages suggesting that he had been released early from his lengthy jail terms in 2022 because a leading Ecuadorean drug trafficker had bribed a judge....
...During five years in office, López Obrador has cut the budgets of many of state institutions, and recently proposed that board members of the election authority INE and Supreme Court judges should be directly...
...On Sunday, Bukele, 42, is expected to overwhelmingly win his second five-year period in office, after judges picked by his party overturned the country’s ban on consecutive terms....
...If confirmed, Bukele will be the first Salvadoran president re-elected since the 1930s after judges picked by his party overturned a ban on serving consecutive terms, a move that observers warned endangered...
...Three of the judges have since fled the country, local media reported....
...The five judges had been appointed a few months earlier by congress, whose dominance by Bukele’s ruling Nuevas Ideas party is forecast to increase in the February election....
...Another crucial piece of information in determining when rates should be cut will be on wage growth, a point reiterated yesterday by ECB president Christine Lagarde....
...Christine Murray spoke to agents, security experts and a former US ambassador to Mexico for this report....
...Dozens of former prosecutors, judges and reporters have fled the country or been imprisoned, including acclaimed investigative journalist José Rubén Zamora....
...He pursued a case against Movimiento Semilla over fake signatures in its registration documents and this week a government agency suspended the party temporarily on the orders of a judge....
...Bailey, like Christine Lagarde at the European Central Bank, has been keen to signal that the BoE will set its own course....
...Since Bukele gained power his strong-arm tactics have included sending the military to storm congress and firing all judges aged over 60....
...Poland’s constitutional court, which is entirely filled with PiS-appointed judges, ruled in January that Tusk’s coalition lawmakers could not make the central bank governor appear before a tribunal....
...Dozens of judges, prosecutors and critical journalists have been imprisoned or fled Guatemala since a major UN-backed anti-corruption effort was shut down in 2019....
...Since that body was abruptly shut down in 2019, dozens of journalists, former prosecutors and judges involved in its work have been imprisoned or fled into exile....
...The CJR has previously heard cases against former ministers, including ex-finance minister and current ECB chief Christine Lagarde, who in 2016 was convicted of negligence in public office over a fraudulent...
...European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde wrote on X that “he was one of the most influential European leaders of his generation”, adding that she “personally witnessed his commitment to Europe,...
...In another New York courtroom another judge will hold a hearing over the $175mn bond Trump posted as he appeals against a $454mn fraud judgment, after the state’s attorney-general Letitia James asked for...
...Judges said evidence presented by defendants about the effects of climate change would be “inadmissible” in future cases....
...European Central Bank: Christine Lagarde is performing poorly or very poorly as president of the bank, according to most respondents in a union survey of its staff. 2....
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